Bayesian variable selection has gained much empirical success recently in a variety of applications when the number K of explanatory variables $(x_{1},\ldots ,x_{K})$ is possibly much larger than the ...

The Annals of Statistics, Vol. 26, No. 4 (Aug., 1998), pp. 1215-1241 (27 pages) We develop a nonparametric Bayes factor for testing the fit of a parametric model. We begin with a nominal parametric ...

Over the years, many writers have implied that statistics can provide almost any result that is convenient at the time. Of course, honest practitioners use statistics in an attempt to quantify the ...